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Robert Knight: Debt's All, Folks

By |2010-04-14T23:31:36-04:00April 14th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on April 14, 2010.

What with the bailouts, the stimulus, and now the government health care takeover, we’re being told that we face $1 trillion annual deficits for the indefinite future, with a $12 trillion to $20 trillion debt by 2020. In February, Congress raised the federal debt limit to $14.3 trillion. That’s bad.

But it’s only the beginning. Does anyone seriously think the current spending binge is all we can expect from this Porky Pig Congress? Programs are sprouting like crabgrass. The horrifying numbers we are now hearing about future deficits reflect projections […]

Ken Blackwell: Is America the Last Best Hope of Earth?

By |2020-04-23T21:57:14-04:00April 13th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on April 13, 2010.

When asked if he believes in American exceptionalism, President Obama said yes, but he was sure that the British and the Belgians also believed in their countries’ exceptionalism.

President Obama’s version of American exceptionalism is Lake Woebegon’s children: they’re all above average. Or perhaps, he’d be more at home in Alice in Wonderland’s Caucus Race, where everyone runs and everyone gets prizes.

There was a time, not so long ago, when Americans expected their President to be an unapologetic champion of American ideals and American power.

President […]

Robert Knight on FOX and Friends

By |2010-04-12T23:40:09-04:00April 12th, 2010|

On Tuesday, April 13 at 7:45am ET, ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight will be on FOX and Friends to discuss comments by an Obama adminstration official about how America is not so great.

You can view the video from the show here.

John Armor: Court Stops FCC Power-Grab

By |2010-04-08T11:32:55-04:00April 8th, 2010|

ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column appearing on the AmericanThinker.com website on April 8, 2010.

The internet is safe for the moment from the clutches of federal regulators thanks to a court decision that may be a harbinger for legal challenges to ObamaCare.

The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down on April 6 an effort by the FCC to regulate internet policies of a private company. The basis of this unanimous decision in Comcast v. Federal Communications Commission may bode well for the multiple cases pending that claim that the just-passed Health Care Act is unconstitutional.

The […]

Stage Set for Recall Battle in North Dakota

By |2010-04-06T11:47:18-04:00April 6th, 2010|

ACRU Responds to North Dakota Secretary of State’s Denial of Citizens’ Effort to Recall Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND)

Bismarck, ND—North Dakota is one of ten states with broad language in its constitution to recall elected officials (www.recallcongressnow.org). Yet, in a letter dated 25 March, 2010, Alvin Jaeger, North Dakota’s Secretary of State, refused to provide the procedures by which a member of Congress could be recalled from the office they hold to a citizen of North Dakota. The ACRU contends that to deny this request is to deny the citizens of North Dakota their constitutional right of recall.

In response […]

John Armor: Is a State-Based Recall of a U.S. Senator Constitutional?

By |2010-04-01T11:17:38-04:00April 1st, 2010|

ACRU legal counsel John Armor wrote this column appearing on the AmericanThinker.com website on April 1, 2010.

Whether citizens of a state have the right to recall from office a sitting U.S. senator is no longer an academic question. The second-highest New Jersey appeals court has just ruled that such an effort can proceed against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

Several other states have provisions in their state constitutions and laws that may also allow recall efforts. And by the common provision of initiative by the people of state laws and constitutions, similar processes could be established in other states.

So the question that […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Border Murder Highlights Administration's Failure

By |2010-03-31T11:55:35-04:00March 31st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 31, 2010.

The tragic murder of a Good Samaritan rancher in Arizona has people yelling for an effective response to this outrage. Although most illegal immigrants are just human beings that are desperately seeking to provide for themselves and their families, this murder shines a spotlight on the Obama administration’s utter failure to secure our borders and uphold the rule of law.

A top story on March 30 is that Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was apparently gunned down by an illegal immigrant. Krentz’s family […]

Ken Klukowski: Groups Can Speak Now… If They Register

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on March 30, 2010.

A top federal appeals court has decided in a major campaign finance case. Whether this case goes to the Supreme Court or not, it indicates that in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United case that Americans will continue to enjoy more of their First Amendment rights, as we head into an election cycle where free speech spells big trouble for Team Obama.

On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC, in which the Court held that citizens joining together in corporate associations are […]

Mark Levin on RecallCongressNow.org

By |2010-03-28T21:01:37-04:00March 28th, 2010|

Here’s what Mark Levin had to say about RecallCongressNow.org and ACRU CEO/Chairman Susan Carleson.

“Well, ladies and gentlemen, it has been brought to my attention—you’re going to like this—that there is a national effort, and a serious effort, by serious people who I know to recall members of Congress—and legally.

And I believe they had a legal victory recently in New Jersey. And that website is…www.recallcongressnow.org.

And the attorney who works on that is somebody I have enormous respect for and I’ve talked about him on the show before: Peter Ferrara. And he’s a solid conservative.

So […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Demonizing Everyday Americans

By |2020-04-23T21:52:59-04:00March 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on BigGovernment.com on March 26, 2010.

There appears to be a concerted effort among the political Left and many mainstream media people to demonize and marginalize the expanding citizen-based movement known as the tea party movement. This effort flows from both a fear of what these tea parties represent and a contempt for everyday Americans. But those ordinary citizens are poised to be the ones laughing when it’s all over, when democracy takes its course.

There seems to be a consensus now among the liberal elite when it […]

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